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And I very much hope it's true.
Assad is a highly intelligent and decent leader for this
part of the world.
Independent-minded and rather brave.
A defender of religious minorities in a land with many of them.
Only America's gaggle of mindless followers keeps reciting
the pre-written lines about his being unfit or unacceptable - as if it were any
of their business anyway.
Where are these people's critical words when it comes to
genuinely vicious madmen like Erdogan, King Salman, and Netanyahu?
We never hear a peep.